How Students From Hyderabad Are Using Reddit To Help A Blind, Abandoned Woman Find A Home

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Project Grandma â This is Kamatchi A.K.A Ammalam Patti A.K.A Viboodhi Paati, my 86 yr old grandmother. I have been wanting to do this project for the past few years but i was unable to do it due to my busy schedule. My grandma suddenly became very weak last week and I finally decided to do this project because I may not get another chance if I leave it for too late. Most of us miss to notice/admire the beauty of our grandparents due to our busy schedules. We all admire them in their younger age photos but miss to capture the beauty of their old age. Only after I took these photos, I myself understood her real self. I was shocked to see how old she has become and these photos made me realize that she is on her way to the lord, but only the Lord knows when.
My intention was not to hurt the feelings of my family members but i wanted to show my family that my grandmother has really grown old. My intention was to click some honest portraits of my grandma to show her physical and emotional details which most of us fail to notice everyday. When I showed these pics to my mom and a few of my family people, they burst into tears. I think that is natural and am sorry.
My grandmother has seen all the good and bad in her life and is still going on strong. Yes! She wants to live more after all the happiness and suffering she got in this material life. She married my grandfather and gave birth to 9 children. When we all struggle to maintain one or two children, imagine how much pain she would have gone through to bring up all these children especially when few of them were really cranky . My grandfather worked in a shipping company as a caterer and so he would be available only for 6 months in a year to help her. It was my grandma all the way. She was a powerful personality and was a queen at her prime age. She managed to give a decent education to most of her children. She did all she could do to give a good life to her kids.
She might have hurt a few and she might have been good to a few but she has been always a loving grandmother in my perspective and I cherish all the moments i had spent with her in my whole life. My mom and I have always been the pet of my grandmother and would love to always be like that. She is going to be with us only for some time so for me, my mom and my family members, now is the time to remember all the good things about her, now is the time to be very supportive to her and now is the time to buy her what she loves â Chocolates & Sweets. Love You Paati!!!
I hope these photos will inspire everybody to click many pics of your grandparents and more importantly show lots of love to them. Remember they have shown their unconditional love to us and itâs our turn now. Letâs not be selfish by leaving them behind when they want us the most.

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Sometimes, Internet can be a great, great place.

A group of students from Hyderabad is trying to help an aged and abandoned woman go back to her home. And now, they have started a Reddit thread, asking for help.

Last year, in March, these students found the woman freezing in cold on the road. 65-year-old Shrava is blind and had been living on the road for six months.

The students found an old-age home in Budvel that was willing to take her in.

"She was not completely intellectually stable in the beginning. And hence, when we dropped her at the old age home, we could not find out much about her family," writes a Reddit user.

Shrava only spoke Marathi, and with the help of a few friends who spoke that language, the students managed to find out about her family.

"For a 65 year old blind woman who cannot talk to anyone, it was very lonely. She desperately wanted to go back to her family."

Soon, they found out her immediate family members. Shrava's brother Sanjay, who lives in Pune told them that her husband had abandoned her. He said he can't take care of the old lady because of his financial condition.

When Shrava was told that her family members will not be able to take her home, she broke down, and said, "Poverty makes everyone miserable doesn’t it?"

Shrava now just wants to go back to her city. But, finding an old age home in Pune is getting increasingly difficult for the students. The user, in a comment, says that most old age homes want to charge to keep her there, and the others "outrightly refused because she is blind."

Shrava is not keeping too well, and the students do not want to take her to Pune and be turned down.

So, the students are now asking the Internet if they can help her find a home:

"1) If you know of an old age home in Maharashtra, preferrably Pune/Solapur (Solapur because that was one of the places she kept mentioning), that would be willing to accommodate her, please please let us know.

2) If you have any advice on how we could help Shrava, please let us know."

Many have offered help, by looking up for old age homes that will keep Shrava without any charge. There are already 50 comments on the Reddit thread that was posted yesterday.